About WebFishEye

An advanced icon and text link navigation system.

WebFishEye is part of WebAqua, a Microsoft Silverlight component that enhances the Web user experience by adding Apple Mac-OS look and feel to your ASP.NET Web applications. WebFishEye advanced web navigation system fully supports Out of Browser, a new feature in Silverlight 3 for building RIA applications that run on the desktop. WebFishEye can display stack buttons similar to those available in the Mac OS X Leopard and comes with six stunning visual effects, such as jumping, reflection, flipping, and more. You may customize and combine built-in effects, and you can also even create your own. WebFishEye's docking system includes the ability to dock to any side of the screen. WebFishEye supports most browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Gecko based, etc.).

WebFishEye is a UI component which allows you to display and arrange your navigation items in modern, shiny and elegant way. WebFishEye includes dozens of innovative features such as the ability to customize the visual effects of the button, the ability to show sub items in Elegant Arc mode or Grid mode, as well as superior behaviors customizability and XAML support.

  • Leopard-style Stack Buttons: One of the key features in WebFishEye is its ability to display stack buttons similar to those available in Mac Leopard's Operating System. The stack button is primarily designed to let users select an item from a button in a convenient and elegant user experience. It allows you to display the Stack Buttons in either Elegant Arc style or in Grid style. The Elegant Arc style is suitable for relatively small number of stack buttons, while Grid style is designed for scalability which allows you to display more stack buttons.
  • Stunning Visual Effects: WebFishEye is the industry's first commercial-ready component that delivers innovative concepts and breakthrough features. Together with Microsoft Silverlight, it is now possible to add stunning visual effects that are never possible before in the Web. WebFishEye comes with 6 built-in stunning visual effects, such as jumping, reflection, flipping, and more. You can also combine the default visual effects to create your own cool effect.
  • Four-sides Docking: In addition to Mac's Dock-like features, WebFishEye also includes its own unique feature such as the ability to set the Docking position to any four sides of the screen. By default, the Docking is set to the Bottom side of the screen. The beauty of the Docking feature is that all WebFishEye features are automatically adapted to the selected Docking position. For instance, when the Docking is set to the Left position, the zoom animation and visual effects will automatically adjust its direction toward the correct position based on the Docking state.
  • Sophisticated Appearances and Styles: WebFishEye comes with several predefined styles that you can easily apply at design time. The styles are varying from classic Mac OS style to modern "Sirius Glowing" glass style. The built-in styles are designed to save your time for achieving spectacular Docking appearance.
  • Highly Customizable Layout: WebFishEye comes with several predefined styles that you can easily apply at design time. The styles are varying from classic Mac OS style to modern "Sirius Glowing" glass style. The included styles are designed to save your time for achieving spectacular Docking appearance.
  • Customizing the button size and the magnified button size : Big buttons in a Web-application can be pain when viewed under low-resolution monitor. It makes your Web-application less effective and ruin your Web-application style. In WebFishEye, you're able to set the button size in the navigation dock as well as the size of the magnified button size when it is focused.
  • Sophisticated Zoom Effects : WebFishEye offers more than just a normal default zoom effect when you hover and focus on a WebFishEye's button. You can set it to zoom when the mouse cursor touches the top of the button or when the mouse cursor enters the Silverlight panel. Feel free to combine it with other properties to create more spectacular animation effects.
  • Configurable Button Indicator: Besides offering highly customizable element, WebFishEye also provides you an easy way to change the button indicator. The default indicator is a blue dot, but you can change it with your own custom image or a shape from an XAML string or XAML URL.
  • Informative tooltip in every button :WebFishEye features an informative tooltip in every WebFishEye's button. The tooltip itself is also customization-friendly. You can use complex images or attach an XAML string to "skin" the tooltip. You are also able to set the font and other font related properties, the shadow, the position, and the visibility of the tooltip.
  • Easy Stack Button customization : WebFishEye supports two kinds of Stack Button, Grid-style and Arc-style. Each Stack Button comes with its own customization. You can easily select the arc direction to left or right or hide the tooltip in the grid-style stacked buttons.
  • Elegant and classy separator : Separator in WebFishEye allows you to divide your buttons, especially when you have numerous of buttons in your WebFishEye. This means you will have a neat and elegant WebFishEye with a styish divider.